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Known for criticizing millionaires' yachts from the comfort of our inflatable kayaks, we are two girls who like to shoot the sh*t about the books we're reading and their movie & TV show adaptations with a lot of sass for no good reason. We'll read the book so you don't have you! You can be that book club member who didn't read and we'll tell you all about it! So listen and subscribe for a sip and a surf on the high seas of Yachtitude!
A cautionary tale about why we don’t let hotties be in charge. Cum slip into the court of King James I and George Villiers, and see what debauchery unfolds.
Book: The King’s Assassin: the Plot to Murder King James I by Benjamin Wooley
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BINGElit is created and produced by Anya Kochel and Grace Whitney
Editing, sound mixing, and original music by Christopher Monty @cmscores
The Idea of You by Robinne Lee is in DENIALL. And that isn’t just a guy from One Direction. This book tells you that it’s about ageism in America, but here's what we think.
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BINGElit is created and produced by Anya Kochel and Grace Whitney
Editing, sound mixing, and original music by Christopher Monty @cmscores
You can’t keep this Dick in a box. This is the Dick Pick you’ll want to see.
We researched the real history of Richard Tupin so you definitely do not have to. But do watch The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin starring Noel Fielding on Apple+.
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BINGElit is created and produced by Anya Kochel and Grace Whitney
Editing, sound mixing, and original music by Christopher Monty @cmscores
Our feelings for Bridgerton are more complicated than their love stories. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, we have the inside scoop.
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BINGElit is created and produced by Anya Kochel and Grace Whitney
Editing, sound mixing, and original music by Christopher Monty @cmscores
Consider this our audition to Neil Gaiman for why we should be invited to work on Season 3. No, we will not spend the entire time simping for David Tennant. Just part of it.
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BINGElit is created and produced by Anya Kochel and Grace Whitney
Editing, sound mixing, and original music by Christopher Monty @cmscores
Have you ever asked yourself: What does Roald Dahl have in common with James Bond? What does antitrust legislation have to do with the 1974 classic confectionary Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory with Gene Wilder? Will Timothee be a big star? Well, cheer up Charlie, you're about to find out!
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BINGElit is created and produced by Anya Kochel and Grace Whitney.
Editing, sound mixing, and original music by Christopher Monty @cmscores
So you just watched Dune Part Two and you’re trying to figure out what it means? Instead of letting your guy friend mansplain it to you, we’ll GIRLsplain like two drunk besties at brunch. We read Frank Herbert’s book so you don’t have to.
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BINGElit is created and produced by Anya Kochel (@gnya.k) and Grace Whitney (@gracewhitney)
Editing, sound mixing, and original music by Christopher Monty (@cmscores)
Elizabeth Zott holds a grudge against inequality. We hold a grudge against the literary choices made in Lessons in Chemistry, both the TV show with Brie Larson, and the book by Bonnie Garmus. Can you take the heat?
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BINGElit is created and produced by Anya Kochel (@gnya.k) and Grace Whitney (@gracewhitney)
Editing, sound mixing, and original music by Christopher Monty (@cmscores)
How do you solve a problem like Napoleon? Ridley Scott definitely didn’t. I got 170,000 problems, but a book ain’t one. We read them so you don’t have to.
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BINGElit is created and produced by Anya Kochel (@gnya.k) and Grace Whitney (@gracewhitney)
Editing, sound mixing, and original music by Christopher Monty (@cmscores)
NLE;WTRM (Not Long Enough; Want To Read More)
- Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts
- The Rise and Fall of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte
- Napoleon: In the Name of Art
This child got him all shook up. He just can’t help falling in love. She made him shake, rattle, and roll into a possible felony. Jailhouse rock just got real.
Sophia Coppola’s film “Priscilla” based off Priscilla Presley’s book “Elvis and Me” is a must-watch/read and an eye-opening account icon.
Can we go on with suspicious minds?
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BINGElit is created and produced by Anya Kochel (@gnya.k) and Grace Whitney (@gracewhitney)
Editing, sound mixing, and original music by Christopher Monty (@cmscores)
NLE;WTRM (Not Long Enough; Want To Read More):
- Elvis and Me by Priscilla Beaulieu Presley
- Elvis Presley: The Man. The Life. The Legend. By Pamela Clarke Keogh
- Being Elvis: A Lonely Life by Ray Connolly
- Child Bride: The Untold Story of Priscilla Beaulieu Presley by Suzanne Finstad
- Elvis Presley: The Searcher docuseries on HBO
The goddess herself blesses us with our generation’s pop gospel. Praise Brit. xoxo
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
Britney Vs. Spears
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BINGElit is created and produced by Anya Kochel (@gnya.k) and Grace Whitney (@gracewhitney)
Editing, sound mixing, and original music by Christopher Monty (@cmscores)
Don’t listen to dude history, we have the true authentic GIRL history and it’s stranger than fiction. In this episode, we cover Season 2 of Our Flag Means Death and all the badass female pirates that inspired it. Mateys! I feel like a woman! Let’s go learn.
NLE;WTRM (Not Long Enough; Want To Read More)
- Pirate Women by Laura Sook Duncombe
- The True Story Of A Pirate Queen
- The Legend of Anne Bonny (AKA dude history)
- The Most Successful Pirate in History
- The Scariest Female Pirate of China
- What did Pirates ACTUALLY Wear? Fashion at Sea in the 18th c & Our Flag Means Death Costumes
- Grace OMalley, Irish Pirate Queen
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BINGElit is created and produced by Anya Kochel and Grace Whitney.
Editing, sound mixing, and original music by Christopher Monty (@cmscores)
Love is battlefield. Let’s talk about sex, baby, let’s talk about Henry and his lady(s). Follow along for the standoff of the 16th century: Anne Boleyn and Thomas Cromwell. Or is it Henry and his dick?
BINGElit is created and produced by Anya Kochel and Grace Whitney.
Editing, sound mixing, and original music by Christopher Monty @cmscores
What’s love got to do with it? Cosmic irony and the art of living in Henry VIII’s England.
This week we’re covering Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and the PBS mini-series, alongside the TV show the Tudors, as we determine if we’d invite Thomas Cromwell to our historical dinner party.
BINGElit is created and produced by Anya Kochel and Grace Whitney.
Editing, sound mixing, and original music by Christopher Monty @cmscores
P - Podcast
O - Outgoing
D - Delusional
C - Chaotic
A - Audacious
S - Studied
T - The books so you don’t have to
BINGElit is created and produced by Anya Kochel and Grace Whitney.
Editing, sound mixing, and original music by Christopher Monty @cmscores
NLE;WTRM (Not Long Enough; Want To Read More)
The Good the Bad and the Barbie by Tanya Lee Stone
Barbie and Ruth by Robin Gerber
Tiny Shoulders: Rethinking Barbie
LA Made: The Barbie Tapes
These bombs.... SO bad....
The Oppenheimer/Christopher Nolan saga continues.
American Prometheus by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
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The most lighthearted discussion of communism you've ever heard.
We're chatting about the life and times of Robert Oppenheimer played by your favorite Peaky Blinder, his biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J Sherwin, and the new film by Christopher Nolan.
American Prometheus by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
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High school is hard enough without having tasers for hands! Get electrified by the world of Naomi Alderman's novel The Power, now a series on Amazon Prime, where all teenage girls in the world develop the power to electrocute people at will. We didn't start the fire, but they sure will.
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Our collection wouldn’t be complete without covering Disney’s new live action Little Mermaid. We read the Hans Christian Andersen, we re-watched the OG Ariel, and we’re here to discuss the treasures untold.
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In the second installment of the modern classic, Royalteen, rejoin the fictional young royals of Norway and our favorite paranoid princess.
We may not be royalists, but we are Royalteenists. Vive la Norge!
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In honor of the new King Charles (barf) the BingeLIT girls take on the Prince and Princess that AREN'T: Harry & Meghan, as well as Prince Harry's memoir 'Spare'
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Celebrating the 25th anniversary of James Cameron’s film and the 111th anniversary of the Titanic. Make a wish! Too soon?
We’re asking the important questions: Does the real life Titanic ship warrant criticism? Who’s more superstitious than a sailor? Who works harder, James Cameron or Peter Jackson? Find out this and more.
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We cast a spell on you, and now you're blind to the fact that we're recommending a 50-hour book over an 8-hour TV series.
We put Anne Rice's The Witching Hour and AMC's Mayfair Witches into a cauldron and brewed up a potion of a pod. Abracadabra and your little dog too.
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We'll read the book so you don't have it.
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Tom Cruise who? AMC’s new series Interview with the Vampire is succulent fun. Grab your garlic and holy water as we drive a stake into the psychoanalysis of the vampire.
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Grace's Lestat Playlist
Book: Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Book: The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
Podcast: The AMC+ Interview with the Vampire Podcast
It’s the throuple that got away! Join us on this roller coaster ride of a three-sided relationship and find out why Harry Styles on probation with us AND why love in the 50’s might not even be real.
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Book: My Policeman by Bethan Roberts
Join us as we slither our way through the contentious court of Catherine de Medici’s reign with the new series on STARZ: The Serpent Queen. We don’t need Nostradamus to know you’re going to love this episode!
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Read along:
Book: Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France by Leonie Freida
Book: The Rival Queens: Catherine de' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal that Ignited a Kingdom by Nancy Goldstone
Book: Catherine de Medici by Honore de Balzac
Book: Catherine de Medici, the Black Queen by Janie Havemeyer
Podcast: Catherine de Medici, Italian Orphan by Stuff you Missed in History Class
Podcast: Catherine de Medici and the Scarlet Nuptials by Stuff you Missed in History Class
Hear ye, hear ye! Join us for ye olde podcast about the new Amazon Prime movie “Catherine Called Birdy” directed by Lena Dunham, based on the book by Karen Cushman.
Although we love to consider ourselves history buffs, and one of us is a known Anglophile, we completely forgot the proper terminology for the Middle Ages and Cononization. Take a shot every time we refer to the restaurant instead of the time period. Maybe we’ll get a saints day out of this.
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Book: Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
Leonardo was a gay vegetarian horse boy, let’s talk about it. The new CW show “Leonardo” certainly doesn’t. Let us a paint a picture for you of the man, the myth, the left-handed legend.
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Book: Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
Book: The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting by Ben Lewis
Documentary: The Lost Leonardo
Norway? No WAY! Uff da, do we have the movie for you! This week, we set sail for Netflix’s “Royalteen.” It’s like Norwegian Gossip Girl with a Hapsburg prince. We’ll be your guides as we wade through the blue blood and wannabe consorts of this fictional Scandinavian monarchy. Make sure you don’t abdicate on this episode!
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Sashay with us through the shitstorm that is “Blonde” on Netflix, the NOT-biopic about Marilyn Monroe. Come learn things about the true story of Marilyn that these creators purposely left out. The controversy, the couture, the conspiracies, and the Christ references are all on the table.
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Our Marilyn recommendations:
Book: Marilyn Monroe: The Private Life of a Public Icon by Charles Casillo
Book: Goddess: the Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe by Anthony Summers
Book: Marilyn Monroe: The Biography by Donald Spoto
Podcast: Marilyn: Behind the Icon
Documentary: The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes
Take me out to the ball game! Tag along for our double header as we discuss the new homerun series A League of Their Own and the ways they improved upon the foul balls and strikeouts of the 1992 film. There’s no crying in baseball but tears were shed for the finale, so you don’t want to be left in the outfield for this one!
Are you smarter than a twelve-year-old? Let’s find out! Jump on in and splash around in time with Amazon Prime’s Paper Girls. Reliving the best period of everyone’s life: puberty. We don’t answer important questions, we ASK important questions:
Toxic shock and tampons – still a thing?
How do you say Stanley Kubrick?
Do we have memory loss or just a mindfulness problem?
Should you save the world using time travel?
Let’s cut the tethers of time and let the Girl Newsies be our guide!
Let’s hoist the sails but not our petticoats as we plunge into Netflix’s new adaptation of Sk8er Boi AKA Jane Austen’s Persuasion starring Dakota Johnson. The casting questions, the cringes, and the utter misses abound as we follow Phoebe – oops, we mean ANNE’s journey back to love. Or worse, the age-old cliche of getting back together with your ex. Silver lining: at least he’s rich now! #girlboss #shawnmendes
Embark on the crashing waves of first love, secret flings, and tough choices as we discuss Amazon Prime’s new show The Summer I Turned Pretty. We read the book so you definitely don’t have to and let us tell you why. Come along for a pom marg, a skinny dip, and a wade into Hulu’s Fire Island. Surf’s up! #shawnmendes
Avast ye dogs! With an audio quality that sounds like you’re sailing on the high seas, the Yachitutde gals swashbuckle with the seamen aboard a new ship – the gay pirate kind. So put on your sea shanties and get ready to get marooned in the history of pirates and our take on HBO’s Our Flag Means Death.
Drinking game: take a drink every time Grace says booty and finish your drink every time she explains how keelhauling works.
Join us for euphoric adventures as we sail the choppy seas of newlywed bliss(??), in this final installment of our Yachtitude read of "The Duke and I" by Julia Quinn. There's no communication but never a dull moment. So, sit back and relax starboard as we say á bientôt to these star-crossed lovers.
In this episode of the Bridgerton Book Club we’re going al fresco. Picnics, yachts, garden trysts, and duels at dawn in mysterious parks. It's not all smooth sailing, as Simon and Daphne deal with slick conditions and gently navigate through a prickly bush to find themselves in a truly compromising position. That's as sexy as we can make it. All aboard?
Join us on our maiden voyage! The Yachtitude gals try to answer the question: "Is that an eel in your bed or are you just happy to see me?"
As they dive into the love lives of the Rakes and Debutantes of Julia Quinn's first Bridgerton book, "The Duke and I."
All aboard mateys!
Meet the Yachtitude captains -- Anya and Grace. Join us for a journey through space and time - or just through the muddy water of lukewarm takes. First stop - Bridgerton. We're Bridgterton Book Club Bougie Bitches now! So grab your caps and flasks and join us on this wild ride!